Larisa and the Merchants

Name: Larisa and the Merchants
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571308156
Price: 16.14 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Alexander Ostrovsky

Translated by: Samuel Adamson

The Value of Something is Never its Price

In a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry and escape heartbreak and humiliation. But in this brutal world of transactions true love has no worth. Larisa is up for sale and the local merchants want a bargain.

Samuel Adamson's version of Alexander Ostrovsky's rarely seen, sharp and darkly funny play Larisa and the Merchants, premiered at the Arcola in May 2013, produced by InSite Performance.

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Product Details

Weight: 130g
Dimensions: 126 x 197mm
Publication Date: 02 May 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571308156

About Alexander Ostrovsky

Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was born into a merchant family in Russia. He wrote 40 prose and 8 verse plays. His acknowledged masterpieces are The Storm (1860) and The Forest (1871). Samuel Adamson's plays include: Wife (Kiln Theatre) Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios) All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic) Fish and Company (Soho Theatre/National Youth Theatre) Southwark Fair (National Theatre) Drink Dance Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre/Channel 4) Grace Note (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic) Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre) contributions to the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic) A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre) and Urban Scrawl (TheatreVoice/Theatre 503). Adaptations include: Ibsen's Pillars of the Community and Mrs Affleck from Ibsen's Little Eyolf (both at the National Theatre) A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Studios) and Three Sisters (OSC/Whitehall Theatre); Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi (Dumbfounded Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Radio 3); Bernhard Studlar's Vienna Dreaming (National Theatre Studio); a musical based on George MacDonald's The Light Princess with Tori Amos (National Theatre); and Jack Maggs from Peter Carey's novel (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Radio includes: Tomorrow Week (Radio 3). Film includes Running for River (Directional Studios/Krug). He was Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush in 1997-8.